Fall 2024 Activities
Mandatory Courses
- HD 505 Develop Effective Leadership
Technical Courses
- CPT_S 570 Machine Learning
- ME 581 Control systems
- ME 582 Robot Kinematics and Dynamics
- CHEM 503 : Advanced Topics in Inorganic Chemistry
Immersive Course
- Mandatory Field Training: Oct. 10 from 4-5pm
- Event 1: Oct. 29 (all day event): Field Robot Demo in AM followed by focus groups and survey sessions with farm workers at Allen Bros Fruit in Prosser.
- Event 2: Dec. 9-11 Hort Show (Yakima, WA): various times/dates; students will host a table at the event to collect surveys from Hort Show attendees.
IRAS Seminars
| Date | Place | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17th 11am-12pm | ETRL 101 Zoom | Dr. Kshitiz Upadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University | Constitutive Modeling of Soft Materials: Past, Present, and Future |
| Oct 3rd 11am-12pm | Online | Hatem Zeine, Founder and President, Ossia | The Future of Sustainably Powering IoT |
| Sep 26th 11am-12pm | ETRL 101 Zoom | Dr. Jiecai Luo Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Southern University and A&M College | Optimal Control for Control Actions with Mixed Impulse Function and Bounded Piecewise Continuous Functions and Some Other Research Topics |
| Sep 19th 11am-12pm | ETRL 101 Zoom | Dr. Sihui Li Assistant Professor, Computer Science Washington State University Tri-Cities | Infeasibility Proofs in Robot Planning |
| Aug 29th 11am-12pm | ETRL 101 Zoom | Dr. Joel C. Perry Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. University of Idaho | Assistive Robotics for Assessment, Training, and Recovery of Function in Arms and Hands after Neurological Injury |
Professional Development Activities
| Date | Place | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18th 11am-12pm | Zoom | Formatting Your Thesis or Dissertation |
| Sep 23rd 4am-5pm | Lighty 180 Zoom | CV to Resume: Graduate’s Road Map |
| Virtual Expo: Oct 7th 11am-2pm In person Expo: Oct 8th 11am-3pm | Virtual Expo: On Handshake In person Expo: Beasley Coliseum | WSU Career Expo & Technical Fair – Virtual Expo on Handshake |
| Oct 16th 4pm-5pm | Lighty 180 Zoom | Networking with Handshake and LinkedIn: Graduate’s Road Map |
| Oct 30th 10am-11am | Zoom | Community over Commercialization: A Conversation about the Future of AI: A WSU Libraries and PDI Collaboration |